Formal update on downtown L.A. stadium coming Tuesday

Posted by Mike Florio on January 27, 2011, 10:44 PM EST

Though Dallas will become the center of the NFL universe next week, a fairly large black hole persists in Los Angeles.

On Tuesday, those hoping to bring the NFL to a to-be-built stadium in downtown Los Angeles will conduct a press conference that promises to provide a “complete briefing,” which will include “new milestone announcements and current timeline.”

This is starting to sound like that Kevin Costner movie, “Field of Dreams”…”If you build it, they will come.” I’m sure the California taxpayers won’t mind an extra $1B+ burden to build a stadium in case a team wants to move.

ravenspit is clueless about why the Raiders and Rams left. They left for the same reason the Colts left Baltimore: outdated stadium and no funding for a new one. Had nothing to do with attendance or the fans caring or the beach or Disneyland or any other cliched use of the diversion excuse in LA.

You should mention that 2011 is the Raiders last year of a lease in Oakland.

To my knowledge Davis hasn’t committed to return to Oakland. And with the horrible political climate their (corrupt), I’m guessing Al would jump at the chance to move back to LA.

As a long term resident of LA, there is no way we would support the Chargers. Every couple of years some bonehead tries to sell LA on the Chargers. We hate that franchise. They are as boring as any in football.

There are 18 million potential football fans in the greater Los Angeles area. Most of those under age 20 can’t even remember what’s it like to have a football team to call their own. They’re starving for the NFL here.

This community has NEVER had a state of the art NFL venue. You’re going to see season ticket sales records broken.

This city has attendance records in multiple sports, including an NFL single game record (102,368) that stood until Cowboys Stadium opened in 2009.

The Rams and Raiders “abandoned” Los Angeles for sweet deals from other cities, not because they weren’t supported by the community…

Take Jacksonville to LA, then move either Kansas City to the AFC South (its already a geographically f&%#ed up division with Indy) OR Move Jacksonville (LA) to the NFC and move the Rams to the AFC South.

Jacksonville had a nice rebound this season but they still need a lot of help with attendance.

Just because it is the 2nd largest market doesn’t mean money will be raining down on them.

There is a reason why the NFL has failed there before. That reason is that the 2nd largest market is just not interested in pro football. The LA market has USC and UCLA for their football fix and that’s all they want.

They can put half of the league in LA at one time and all of the franchises will fail. LA is a Laker, Dodger, college football and pro soccer market. There is more sports news in LA about Beckham knocking up his wife than there is about pro football.

The Raiders are not going anywhere. Al Davis has made it clear he wants to stay in Oakland. Last season he also took time to address all the fans outside the stadium personly speaking to them to let them know as much. But it only makes Raider news if it creates hits on PFT

Their not just a Minnesota team, as the name implies it is also the N.Dakota, S.Dakota and Iowa Vikings, this actually is a good market for the NFL. Wilf is a guy who made $$$ in the realestate buisness, why would he go to another allready invested in built-up LA Complex? if he wants, then sell the team to Minnesotans. LA should just create a new team. If NFL moved Minnesota after 50 years of tradition, I would never watch Pro Football again or buy from Reebok, Nike, etc. again. I do know there are alot of soCal viking fans, but they must not agree with this.

Since California is broke and it’s LEGAL citizens are taxed to the brim, there is still no way to pay for the stadium. If the billionaire owner is not willing to flip the bill, all you cities being held hostage are safe.

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Do not count out the new location for a downtown San Diego Chargers Stadium/Convention Center Expansion/Sporting Complex on the Waterfront with an existing public park that can be used for Tailgating.

Please see our proposal for a new NFL Chargers stadium on the waterfront in downtown San Diego, which will be built as part of the Convention Center Expansion. The plan could happen without the use of Redevelopment Money. Then CCDC would not have to destroy the Historic Wonder Bread building, and Eminent Domain of the existing Print Shop and Liquor Store.

“Since California is broke and it’s LEGAL citizens are taxed to the brim, there is still no way to pay for the stadium. If the billionaire owner is not willing to flip the bill, all you cities being held hostage are safe.”